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Sowell, Marsha – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2018
Recognized as the leader of the school, the middle school principal is expected to continually facilitate student success and school improvement. One such way principals can lead school improvement is through building supportive, trusting relationships with teachers. This qualitative case study explored the ways in which five middle school…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Educational Improvement, Teacher Administrator Relationship
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Pamela Burdman – Numeracy, 2024
This keynote address explores the history and role of college math requirements with a focus on ensuring math courses serve to expand students' horizons, rather than serve as gatekeepers. It discusses the advent of general education math courses, which brought more students into math departments, which ultimately contributed to broadening the…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, College Students, Problem Solving
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Scott, Lawrence; Kearney, W. Sean; Krimbill, Elisabeth; Hinojosa, Nicholas – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2023
This article presents a mixed method study utilizing teacher and student demographic and student attendance data from seven hundred and two public schools in central Texas along with follow-up qualitative data gathered through semi-structured interviews conducted with the top 1% of principals identified as having the most diverse group of faculty…
Descriptors: Principals, Teachers, Students, Public Schools
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Bronson, Elethia Nicole; Long, Leroy L., III – Education and Urban Society, 2023
Research shows student success in advanced-level science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs is connected to future educational and economic opportunities. Yet, Black students have been excluded from participating in rigorous mathematics courses that prepare them to engage in STEM majors and careers. This article reviews…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, STEM Education, African American Students, Difficulty Level
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Brion, Corinne – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2022
This teaching case study aims at encouraging meaningful conversations about discipline. The case illustrates the increasing need for school leaders to adopt discipline approaches that foster support, equity, inclusion, and advocacy for cultural differences rather than punishment and the exclusion of marginalized students. This scenario takes place…
Descriptors: Altruism, Discipline, Case Studies, Case Method (Teaching Technique)
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Peltier, Tiffany K.; Washburn, Erin K.; Heddy, Benjamin C.; Binks-Cantrell, Emily – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
In recent years, many states have passed laws requiring dyslexia training for teachers. Research suggests teachers hold both scientifically-based conceptions as well as misconceptions of dyslexia, but there is little research regarding the specific concepts of dyslexia in which teachers are unsure. Research on conceptual change suggests a…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teaching Methods, Misconceptions
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Walkerdine, Valerie – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
Drawing on my own experience as a working-class academic, as well of that of working-class students in the present, I discuss how the experience for working-class students in elite universities still includes many aspects of classism, even when those students can, and do, do very well indeed and even when policies are apparently in place to…
Descriptors: Working Class, Colleges, Selective Admission, Social Class
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John Ehrich; Stuart Woodcock – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
Peggy McIntosh's ("White privilege and male privilege: A personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women's studies," Working Paper 189, Wellesley Center for Research on Women, 1988) list of 50 racial privileges, which purportedly benefit persons of white skin colour, has had enormous impact on social science…
Descriptors: Whites, Advantaged, Psychometrics, Evaluation
Alex Quigley – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
It is a truth universally acknowledged that pupils do not learn all that they are taught. They may learn something, they may even learn a lot, but it may not be a lot of what we think we have taught them or they may struggle to apply knowledge successfully. In this book, bestselling author Alex Quigley characterises how the long and winding road…
Descriptors: Learning, Success, Failure, Memory
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Jessie Leigh Nielsen; Rikke Vang Christensen; Mads Poulsen – Journal of Research in Reading, 2024
Background: Studies of syntactic comprehension and reading comprehension use a wide range of syntactic comprehension tests that vary considerably in format. The goal of this study was to examine to which extent different formats of syntactic comprehension tests measure the same construct. Methods: Sixty-nine Grade 4 students completed multiple…
Descriptors: Syntax, Reading Comprehension, Comparative Analysis, Reading Tests
Grissom, Jason A.; Egalite, Anna J.; Lindsay, Constance A. – Educational Leadership, 2021
A school's success is largely determined by the effectiveness of its principal--decades of research have made this clear. Less settled is the question of what principals need to know and do to drive positive outcomes in their schools. A recent report funded by The Wallace Foundation provides evidence on the connection between school principals and…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Responsibility, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Effectiveness
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Ella Christiaans; So Yeon Lee; Kristy A. Robinson – Educational Psychology, 2024
Students want to learn computer science due to its usefulness for future careers, however they often meet challenges in introductory courses. In the increasingly digital world, it is important to understand some important psychological consequences of such challenges: perceived costs of pursuing computer science. This study thus investigated…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Computer Science Education, Psychological Patterns, Student Attitudes
Lindsay Prendergast – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Despite the substantial shifts in education to align classroom instruction and assessment to common academic standards, traditional grading practices remain largely associated with longstanding beliefs and practices. Research suggests that traditional grading may be an inequitable practice that inaccurately communicates student learning (Plourde,…
Descriptors: Grading, Grades (Scholastic), Academic Standards, Educational Change
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Lefèvre, Elise; Law, Jeremy M.; Quémart, Pauline; Anders, Royce; Cavalli, Eddy – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Individuals with dyslexia often present phonological difficulties, ultimately impacting their reading and writing. Nevertheless, an individual with dyslexia may circumvent these difficulties through a reliance on linguistic units with more consistent spellings, such as morphemes. The increased use of morphological information by individuals with…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Oral Reading, Adolescents, Dyslexia
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Catherine Lammert; Vickie C. Godfrey – AERA Open, 2023
Although children's literature has been challenged and banned for decades, some U.S. states have recently enacted legislation limiting how teachers can address such topics as race, sex, and gender in classrooms, which may influence teachers' selection of literature. To understand this phenomenon, this exploratory concurrent mixed-methods study…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Censorship, Childrens Literature, State Legislation
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